"Flowers on the Wall"
Single byThe Statler Brothers
from the albumFlowers on the Wall
B-side	"Billy Christian"
Released	June 14, 1965
Recorded	March 13, 1965
Studio	Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	2:19
Label	Columbia43315
Songwriter	Lew DeWitt
Producers	Don Law and Frank Jones
The Statler Brothers singles chronology
"Your Foolish Game" (1964) "Flowers on the Wall" (1965) "My Darling Hildegarde" (1966)

"Flowers on the Wall" is a song originally recorded by Americancountry music groupThe Statler Brothers. Written and composed byLew DeWitt, the group's original tenor vocalist, the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at number two on theBillboard magazineHot Country Singles chart, and reaching number four on theBillboard Hot 100 chart.

The song won the 1966 Grammy Award forBest Contemporary (R&R) Performance - Group (Vocal or Instrumental).^[1]

The Statler Brothers re-recorded the song in 1975 for their first greatest-hits album forMercury Records,The Best of The Statler Brothers.

In 2024,Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 116 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.^[2]

Eric Heatherly recorded the song in 2000 for his debut album,Swimming in Champagne. Released as his debut single, Heatherly's rendition reached number six on theHot Country Songs chart and number 50 on theBillboard Hot 100.

• The song (its 1975 version) is used in the soundtrack to the 1994 filmPulp Fiction.^[13] In the film,Bruce Willis's character sings along to the line, "smoking cigarettes and watchingCaptain Kangaroo" as he is driving.
• The song is also referenced in the 1995 filmDie Hard with a Vengeance whereBruce Willis's character says he was "working on a nice fat suspension, smoking cigarettes and watchingCaptain Kangaroo" .
• Kurt Vonnegut quotes the song's complete lyrics in his 1981 bookPalm Sunday, calling the song "yet another great contemporary poem by the Statler Brothers" and using it to describe "the present condition" of an American man who had recently departed his family. "It is not a poem of escape or rebirth. It is a poem about the end of a man's usefulness", he adds.
• It is the theme song of the radio seriesLinda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting.^[14]
• The Muppets covered the song in 2015, sung by a group of rats called 'The Ratler Brothers', (a clear reference to the Statler Brothers), and released an accompanying music video. The chorus lyrics were modernized and removed the reference to smoking, replacing it with activities such asInstagram stalking and playing sudoku.
• An instrumental version was used for the long-runningTVNZsheepdog trialling TV seriesA Dog's Show

• Whitburn, Joel,Top Country Songs: 1944-2005 (2006)

• Both the 1966 and1975 versions on YouTube

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